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In the News – General Dempsey apologizes to Mother for Ramadi Remark

April 21, 2015
Mark Divine No Comments NSWC

In the News – UPDATE: General Dempsey apologizes to Mother for Ramadi Remark

Follow up to a piece we shared over the weekend:

Gen. Martin Dempsey is used to giving orders, but it was an apology he issued Monday to Debbie Lee, after the Gold Star mom complained that the joint chiefs chairman trivialized the Iraqi town where her son became the first Navy SEAL to die in the Iraq War.

Lee, whose son Marc was killed in Ramadi in 2006 after a fierce firefight with insurgents, told FoxNews.com she was “in tears” Friday after listening to comments by Dempsey in which he said the imminent fall of Ramadi to ISIS militants was “not symbolic in any way.”…

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